error codes
Martin Pool
mbp at samba.org
Tue Aug 14 00:27:23 EST 2001
On 13 Aug 2001, Abdul Rahman <ARahman at SevenSpace.com> wrote:
> All:
>
> I am attempting to do an scp through rsync on a remote solaris machine.
> I am getting a 5120 error return code from rsync placed in -v mode. What
> does this mean?
> Looking on the box where the remote files where to be copied to, i found the
> root file system full.
> I know the copy was attempted, but just making some observations, does this
> code mean that
> the copy could not be completed. Obviously this is not a 0,0 status so i
> know something is afoot.
> Looking at time/date stamps on the files i see the old versions not the new
> ones.
That number seems too large, though it is late at night. Where do you
see it?
What do you mean by "scp through rsync"? rsync over ssh?
> Another error code i got was 3072 which was from an scp command that ran
> through rsync. What does
> this mean?
>
> Ambitiously, is there a detailed list of error codes and what they mean? I
> would like to be able to have
> exit status' acted upon in a wrapper script based on the return code.
This is fixed in rsync 2.4.7pre1 and in CVS. The descriptions could
be better, though. Look in cvsweb at rsync.1 if you like.
Cheers,
--
Martin
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